“A brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year (1911−1912) that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, the trajectory of the two men’s lives wove together in uncanny ways — as did their shared desire to tackle the world’s biggest questions in Europe’s strangest city. Tying the literary, scientific, and geographic centers of the world together for a single year, Einstein in Kafkaland tells an untold story of two of the modern era’s defining figures, each brought to vivid life with stunning artwork in Krimstein’s signature style, as they battle God for truth in a cosmic universe against the backdrop of Prague’s intricacies and mysteries.” −From the Publisher
Credit line: “Excerpted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. from Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe © by Ken Krimstein, 2024.”
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt (which won the Bernard J. Brommel Award and was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award) and When I Grow Up (named a Best Book of the Year by NPR). He lives in Evanston, Illinois.